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BOOK
VII.
Royal
Commentaries.
the
humming c afed , they concluded,
fu ch p e fo
to b ...
the
evil
f
peaker,
and
from that tim ...
~
they would
concei e
malice againft
hi m~
and for ver prove
his Enemy.
And upon fuch fool ries as th fe, the Friends of
Hemandez..
d -
dared, that the
Indians
bad
no
Art
in Necromancy., nor was
a·ny
Faith to
be
given to
their
Prognoftications.
•
The Rebel
.f:lernt!nde~
overtook
his
Army in a plain., which
is
behind the
Fortrefs of
Coz..co.,
where, as
Palentino
faith,
be made a vifit to
Francifco R od>·i–
guez..
de
Villa
fuerte,
who was
J
uftice in ordinary of that
City; complainiog
highly
0£
the
Citizens
of
Coz..co,
and
f
wearing
that
he would
kill
and de!troy
them, becaufe they bad done him
au
the mifchief that ti'ley were able :
bu~
he
had a mind to quarrel with them ecaufe they efpoufed not
his
Caufe., nor fol–
lowed
him as
he defired.
From thence he marched
his Army
over thofe
Hills
which are Eaftward
from the
City.,
as his Aftrologers had direeted, and
carried his
Wife
with him to the great grief of all her Friends and Relations.,
faying, That he would not leave her in the power of his
Eoetny,
to revenge
themfelves on her for the Crimes of
which
he himfelf was only guilty ; and
fo
he proceeded to the Valley of
Orcor,
about five Leagtl!?afrom the City · And
here I will leave him for a while, to fpeak of the Pr fed! which the Son of this
Francifco Rodriguez.. de Villafuerte
made me in
Spain,
though I had
forJllerly
never
fee him, nor had any other acquaintance with him than by intercourfe of
Letters. The fecond Son, l
fay,
of this Gentleman, was fent intt>
Spain
to
ftudy, and lived in
Salama.nca
feveral years, where he improved greatly in all
Sciences ; he was called
Don Felir:iano Rodriguez., de Villafuerte.,
which name agreed
properly with the Gallantry and Ingenuity of his Spirit: At the beginning
of this Year
161 1,
this Gentleman
did
me the favour to fend me a little Box
about the length and breadth of
half
a Sheet of Paper, all filled with Holy
Reliques, wrapt up in feveral parcels with Infcriptions thereon, what, and of
whom they were ; and amongft: the reft, there was a little piece
of
the
Holy
Crofs, put into a Frame of Wood cnriouily Carved, and covered with a
Glafs, and gilded about the Crofs, which was eafie to ..be feen. With this
Box of Reliques he fent me two Dials made
by
his own Hand, one of the
Sun~
with
a Needle turning to the North, the Shadow on which perfectly fhews
the Hour of the Day. Another Dial was of the Moon curioufiy wrought ac–
cording to the exact Rules of Aftrology, with all the Circular Motions divi–
deq into twenty nine parts, which make up the Days of the Lunary Moneth :
It hath alfo the true Figure of the Moon with its lncreafe and Decreafe, its
Conjunction and Full: It alfo
by
the fhadow caft on it (the Gnomen thereof
· being altered according to the age ofthe Moon) fhews the Hour of the Njght;
it
hath alfo many other Curiofities which I
fhall
omit in this place,
all
which was
made
by
his own Hand, without any other aid or direCl:ions whatfoever, both
as to the
Material
Part, as alfo to the Mathematical, to the great admi–
ration of many
curious
Men, as well
Virtuoji
as Others: A!ld for
my
part, I
cannot but glory and boaft
ver:y
much to fee a Man born in
my
Country and
my
City,
to have been the Mafter of
fo
excellent a piece of Ingenuity and
Learnit\g, fo much . admired
by
the Artifts of this part of the World ; the
which
may
ferve for a demonftration of the Natural Genius of the People of
PerH..,
and their: capacity to receive all Arts and Sciences, as well tbofe who
are
of Mongrel Race between
Spaniards
and Indians, as all others born
there,
-
the whi,ch we touched upon before, and fignified how much fome have been
improved therein
by
the lnduftry and
A~thority
o
our
Schoolmafter
John de
Cuellar,
who was a Canon of the Holy Church of
Co~co,
who taught Grammar
in that
City.,
though but for a fuort time.
Praifed be our Lord God for the
fame.
Amen.
Which having faid., we fball return to
Peru,,
to relate the fuc–
cefs of his Majefties
Army
in their March, having left them formerly
in
the
City
of
Huamftnca.
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